Humanoide Roboter: Chinas Streben nach verkörperter Intelligenz

In 2023, China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology proclaimed that China would work to become the world’s top producer of cutting-edge humanoid robots by 2027. But why? What can humanoid robots achieve that industrial robots alone cannot?

This article explores the motivations and methods of humanoid robot development in both China and the West. We debate about automation frequently on this sub, but humanoid robot development comes with unique ethical challenges. If robots can walk around in the world collecting video and personal data to train new AI models, new regulations will be necessary to protect the privacy of us analog humans. How should governments approach this issue? Is there any hope for democracies and autocracies to cooperate on this issue?